Re: [Tracker] Tracker Tags in Nautilus/Files

[mlo <tracker member holoclan de>]

Am 05.11.2014 um 19:43 schrieb Debarshi Ray:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:41:29PM +0100, mlo wrote:
> > What I really miss is a seamless integration with gnome files (aka
> > nautilus).
> >
> > I would very much like to browse my files by tag-cloud or tag-hierarchy.
> > I would love to have my tags handy in the file-browser so that I can
> > attach tags to files on ths fly.
>
> The nautilus extension is not a very good fit for the way people are
> thinking about search and content in GNOME.
>
> The idea is to have a bunch of content applications, that are an
> alternative to nautilus, for users who don't want to deal with the
> hierarchical UNIX filesystem - gnome-documents, gnome-photos,
> gnome-music and totem. All these applications end up using tracker -
> either by making direct SPARQL queries or via Grilo.
>
> Needless to say, these applications are very new [2], and much work
> needs to be done to build a working alternative to the file manager.
>
> Therefore, I don't think it makes much sense to have tags and tag
> clouds in nautilus [1]. Instead they are a better fit for these new breed
> of applications.

I agree
so at the moment, there is no such thing available, right?

I tried gnome-documents already and must say, that it definitely is NOT
what I was looking for. I understand, that hiding the filesystem
structure is one of its design principles. As such a very good idea. But
what it does instead is leave the user with no structure at all. I fire
up gnome-documents and start guessing what it does and how it chooses
the documents I see.
maybe there is more to come ... ?

My vision of a semantic desktop dosen't need a directory structure at
all, but having a flat list of files without any hint of a grouping or
sorting criterion but only an empty search-field doesen't help either.

In my head the image of a tag-cloud keeps popping up. Maybe there are
better ideas out there.

Same is true to an even higher rate for gnome-photos. With a
photo-collection of about 70.000 shots there is no way around a
predefined hierarchical structure. Mine is by date, which I don't really
like but tagging that amount of pictures is really not a weekend-job ...

so where does it go from here?

greets
martin